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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

What this means for subscribers:

  • Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
  • In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

A few changes to be aware of:

  • The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
  • The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.

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Year 1 Life and living things worksheets

Be a leaf detective

Be a leaf detective

Go into your garden and see how many different plants you can find. How could you find out the names of these plants? Who could help you find out? Now play the find my leaf game!
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Animal spinners game

Animal spinners

Cut the spinners out, stick them on card and push a pencil through the middle. Spin both wheels at the same time and act out or talk about the two animals that you land on (for example, talk like a frog or grow like a caterpillar!). Now research your favourite animal.
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A to Z of body parts worksheet

A to Z of body parts

Play a car game listing an A to Z of parts of the body, for example: arm, belly button, cuticles… If you get stuck you may need to be creative and think of variations (for example, digits instead of fingers). If you’re playing with older children they could also list internal organs!
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Animal anagrams

Animal anagrams

The letters in these boxes have been mixed up. Can you unjumble them to find the name of an animal?
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Labelling and describing words

Draw a picture of a family member then label it and add some words to describe them around the picture.
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Identify the parts of a plant worksheet

Identify the parts of a plant

A Year 1 science worksheet on identifying the parts of a plant, created by a primary school teacher to support learning at home.
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Investigating what bodies can do

Investigating what bodies can do

Help your child learn about the human body and what it can do with this great worksheet.
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Know your body and its parts

Know your body and its parts

This activity is a fun way to help your child to learn about the human body and its parts.
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My bean growing diary 2

My bean growing diary

Your child will enjoy growing their own bean and keeping a record of its progress with this fun diary.
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Where do seeds come from? activity

Where do seeds come from?

A fun activity encouraging children to look at the seeds within fruit.
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Learning about living things: using a microscope

Learning about living things: using a microscope

The complexity of nature is studied in intricate detail using a digital microscope in this fascinating science activity for EYFS and KS1 children.

It is aimed at Key Stage 1 and EYFS pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
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Parts of a plant and what they do worksheet

Parts of a plant and what they do

This download shows a picture of a plant and asks children to label the parts and also explain what each part does. There is an answer sheet included.
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